When spunky Swedish spinster Lili Tornquist, age 29, learns that her widowed father will soon remarry a woman she detests, she leaves her Minnesota home to become the mail-order bride of a distant cousin, Gunnar Jorgeson, a Montana sheep rancher. But her new husband falls far short of his promise.
Mattie Hamil is on a frantic journey West. On her own, with only her grit and determination to see her through, she has to find her charming gambler of a fiance, and she has to do it fast...before her pregnancy shows.